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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
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Food security
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
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Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable
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Food security
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Gender equality
Floods are becoming fiercer and more frequent – and sometimes catastrophic. Across Asia, where mil…
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Integrating fish conservation with water sanitation during COVID-19 in Cambodia
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Food security
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Health
In rural Cambodia, many households are burdened with having to collect and treat their own…
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Resilient and participatory: How Quito’s setting the standard on urban food systems
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Food security
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Nutrition
Like many cities around the world, Quito, Ecuador, is confronting major challenges around providing …
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Fall armyworm survey marks CIMMYT’s first research project in Laos
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Food security
A major farmer survey is gathering data to understand how smallholders in Laos are responding…
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Kenya’s mountain treasures
13.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part one in a series of three stories that…
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Launching the AgriFoodTrust platform
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Big data
A new testing and learning platform for digital trust and transparency technologies — such as…
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COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY ANTOINE BOUËT AND DAVID LABORDE Across Africa, countries have imposed emergency border restrict…
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Partnerships for improving sweetpotatoes in Africa
12.05.20Dr. Craig Yencho’s work on improvement of sweetpotatoes in Africa was recently featured on the…
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Turn waste into wealth during and after the COVID-19 lockdown
12.05.20The current COVID 19 lockdown is forcing us to look within for sufficiency. At the…
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East African dairy under COVID-19: How is this vibrant sub-sector faring? Join us for a webinar 28 May
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Albertina is business savy. Domingos has a knack for operations— together this husband and wife…
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How do you feel about agroforestry?
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Biodiversity
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Over the last five decades of agroforestry research, only a handful of studies have investigated…
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African stakeholders fear severe food chain impact from COVID-19
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Gender equality
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Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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Aflatoxin biocontrol product lowers maize, groundnut contamination in Senegal
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Health
Results from a new study show Aflasafe to be highly efficient at reducing aflatoxin contamination…
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Better seeds and best practices enhance incomes for smallholder farmers in Mali
12.05.20Photo: Farmer Bourama Bougodogo with his mother outside their home. Photo: N Diakite and S…
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Nigerian experiences shared at milestone data forum on nutrition action in West Africa
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Nutrition
Together 4 Nutrition Data Forum drew diverse groups of data producers and users to address…
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